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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-18247
2010-11-26 20:32:45
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Name : curl
Product : Fedora 13
Version : 7.20.1
Release : 5.fc13
URL :
http://curl.haxx.se/
Summary : A utility for getting files from remote servers (FTP, HTTP, and others)
Description :
cURL is a tool for getting files from HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, LDAPS,
DICT, TELNET and TFTP servers, using any of the supported protocols.
cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of
interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support,
user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.
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Update Information:
cumulative update for the f13 branch
- do not send QUIT to a dead FTP control connection (#650255)
- prevent FTP client from hanging on unrecognized ABOR response (#649347)
- return more appropriate error code in case FTP server session idle timeout has exceeded
(#650255)
- prevent FTP server from hanging on closed data connection (#643656)
- proxy tunnel support for LDAP requests (#655134)
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Nov 26 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.20.1-5
- do not send QUIT to a dead FTP control connection (#650255)
- prevent FTP client from hanging on unrecognized ABOR response (#649347)
- return more appropriate error code in case FTP server session idle
timeout has exceeded (#650255)
- prevent FTP server from hanging on closed data connection (#643656)
- proxy tunnel support for LDAP requests (#655134)
* Mon Aug 23 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.20.1-4
- modify system headers to work around a gcc bug (#617757)
- curl -T now ignores file size of special files (#622520)
- fix kerberos proxy authentication for https (#625676)
- fix curl -J to chop filename at next semicolon (upstream commit d76874a)
* Wed Jun 30 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.20.1-3
- add support for NTLM authentication (#603783)
* Fri Jun 4 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.20.1-2
- workaround for broken applications using curl multi (#599340)
* Wed May 26 2010 Kamil Dudka <kdudka(a)redhat.com> 7.20.1-1
- update to 7.20.1
- now using threaded DNS resolver instead of c-ares (#548269)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #650255 - Curl does not handle FTP server timeout gracefully
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650255
[ 2 ] Bug #649347 - Fedora 14 anaconda fails to retrieve filelists.xml.gz from FTP
installation repository.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649347
[ 3 ] Bug #643656 - some FTP servers hang if curl closes the data connection too early
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643656
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update curl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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